How to buy YDL software

[hemphill]

I will echo Christopher's comments  I also would like to see the 
subscription available, I've been buying releases in order to support 
Terrasoft, but given the hassles I've had with ordering through the web 
site (it turns out mozilla is broken in a way that prevents completing 
the order when you're going through a firewall) and the hassles with 
convincing the beancounters that an upgrade to a new release is 
necessary it's becoming harder and harder to do.  I also mirror the 
distribution for consumption behind our firewall and would be willing to 
add appropriate accounting to that.
    Gavin Hemphill
    Defence Research and Development Canada, Atlantic

Christopher Murtagh wrote:

>On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Carsten Milling wrote:
>
>>I think Pietro raises an interesting point here. I bought the CDs twice
>>for the same reasons as Pietro's, i.e. to support a nice Linux
>>distribution for PPC. However, I payed more than $60 each time. That
>>means the shipping was even more expensive than the actual distribution.
>>
>
> I have to agree with this. I also buy as many distros as I can to help
>support TerraSoft. 2.3 was the first distro I haven't bought, and the only
>reason was because money was tight when I asked my boss for it and the
>shipping really adds to the cost (not to mention the fact that our dollar
>is in the crapper, so we get killed in the exchange rate).
>
> I think a subscription option would be really great. I don't really need
>to buy physical CDs, especially since I'm mirroring the server, but I
>would like to contribute $$ in a way that I can sell easily to the powers
>that be here. Since other departments pay outrageous fees for service and
>maintenance contracts on their Solaris and Irix boxes, one or two hundred
>$$ should be easy for me to get them to agree to. The only thing I would
>need for this to be an item to pitch to my boss is an official
>'subscription service' provided by Terra Soft which might include things
>like advanced access to download ISOs (I would even be willing to mirror
>subscription accounts and/or design a system that can make it exportable
>via http), and a friendly newsletter every month or two with some tips,
>updaters, changelogs, etc..
>
> Dan what do you think?
>
> Anyway, just my $0.02.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Chris
>
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